-The European Commission has launched a research project on foreign ownership of financial assets in the European Union. This will lead to a workshop in September 2002 followed by a conference planned for February 2003 and the subsequent publication of the conference proceedings. At this stage, the European Commission is soliciting statements of interest from economic researchers to participate in this research project.
Policy-relevant information to emerge from the project is expected to be threefold:
provide insight into what are the potential gains from foreign ownership and what aspects of policy still are hindrances to a further internationalisation of asset ownership.
indicating how several key areas of policy, such as taxation, competition policy and banking sector policies, are in practice influenced by international ownership.
how international ownership affects macroeconomic performance.
The workshop considers in a wide context the determinants of ownership within Europe. The workshop will consist of several papers that deal with key aspects of foreign ownership on a cross-country basis, and also of several case studies that deal more broadly with foreign ownership from the perspective of a single member state.
The following contributions are envisaged:
Empirical evidence on the internationalization of various asset classes in
the EU
The determinants of foreign ownership at the level of the firm
Portfolio diversification in Europe
Foreign ownership and the international transmission of economic shocks
Foreign ownership and economic performance
Foreign ownership and taxation
Foreign ownership, labor market outcomes and political economy
Restrictions on foreign ownership: international evidence
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